Events...

The popular Linden Hill Tea and Author Retreats are back....

Here's what is up next on the 2008 Tea Retreat Schedule!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23RD
Debut novelist and Midwest Connections author, Ellen Baker, author of Keeping the House, selected by the Chicago Times as one of the FIVE BEST Books of 2007.

Ellen Baker’s novel Keeping the House is about small-town life, family history, and preserving the past…a perfect match for a visit to the historic homes of Linden Hill. As the Friends of Linden Hill work to give the historic properties a second chance as a public property and preserve their unique history, so the main character in Baker’s novel falls in love with another Lumber Baron’s house in Pine Rapids, WI. Dolly visits the abandoned mansion on the sly - dusting, polishing, and learning the story of the woman that arrived there in 1896. Learn more about Ellen Baker and Keeping the House at www.EllenBakerNovels.com

Catering for the August Tea will once again be by Chef Chad Minor.
Books will be availalbe for sale in advance at Bookin' It and also the day of the event/signing at Linden Hill.

Accepting reservations now! Call Linden Hill at 320-616-5580.

Breaking News!

KEEPING THE HOUSE is one of five finalists for the Great Lakes Book Award (fiction), awarded by the Great Lakes Booksellers Association. The winner will be announced in August.

www.bookinitontheweb.com and www. linden-hill.org

Breaking News! Jess Lourey who was our featured guest at the June 29th Tea reports that her latest book, August Moon, just recieved a STARRED REVIEW in Booklist

Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair
Saturday,September 6,2008

Saturday, September 6, 2008 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Debut Novelist, Jim Preobstle, In the Absence of Honor

When Jake Lorenz retreats to his family's cabin in the North Minnesota woods for the winter, he's looking for peace, quiet, and time to reflect on the loss of his wife and his job. But instead, he finds a gruesome murder scene on his doorstep. The more he discovers about the death, the deeper he is drawn into a shadowy struggle for land, wealth, and power. There are forceful men who don't want him to search any further: the corrupt tribal council that controls the nearby Ojibwe casino, the secretive and antisocial plutocrat who owns half the peninsula, and the ruthless Indian Mafia, to name a few.

Saturday, September 6. 2008 Noon - 3 PM
William Meissner, Spirits In the Grass

Meissner is the Creative Writing Director at St. Cloud State, as well as a published poet and short story writer. Spirits in the Grass is his first novel. It will be released in early September and has already received praise from such respected authors as Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O'Brien, Susan Power and Jonis Agee.

Bill Meissner has won numerous awards for his writing, including PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Awards for four of the stories in The Road to Cosmos. He is the author of a previous book of short fiction, Hitting into the Wind, and four books of poetry, including American Compass (Notre Dame Press, 2004). He is director of creative writing at St. Cloud State University.

Saturday, September 6, 2008 2 PM - 5 PM
William Kent Krueger, Cork O'Connor Mystery Series

Krueger's newest book in the Cork O'Connor mystery series, Red Knife, is expected to ship September 2nd, just in time for his visit here. You can pre-order his book now. Just call us at 320-632-1848 or email us at book@integra.net.

Also, now available in paperback, Thunder Bay.

Thomas Maltman who visited Bookin' It this past holiday season was just awarded the ALA Alex Award 2008 for his book The Night Birds. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Alex Awards are given to ten adult books with specific teen appeal. The Night Birds is now available in trade paperback.

The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman was among St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Books of 2007; Rocky Mountain News lists Maltman as the Best First Time Novelist of 2007.

“Maltman weaves this gripping story around real events that resulted in the mass execution of 38 Dakota Indians in 1862.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A remarkably poignant narrative in time, an elegant portrayal of a period little known in American history.”—Rocky Mountain News

And -- Jess Lourey who signed her Murder-By-Month Mystery series books at Bookin' It during the 2007 Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair just reported in to us on her most recent award.

Lourey's Knee High by the Fourth of July was nominated for a Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery of 2007. Jess Lourey has a new book coming out in June and will be our featured author for the next Author Tea Retreat at Linden Hill.

Minnesota Mystery Writer Monica Ferris at Linden Hill for the first 2008 Author Tea Retreat. Over 40 guests attended the four course Tea.

Monica's Needlework Mysteries:

Crewel World
Framed In Lace
A Stitch In Time
Unraveled Sleeve
A Murderous Yarn
Hanging by a Thread
Cutwork
Crewel Yule
Embroidered Truths
Sins and Needles
Knitting Bones
Thai Die

Free Needlewerk Pattern
included in each book.